Joanne Drayton is an acclaimed New Zealand author whose output is
globally recognised. Her book Hudson & Halls- The Food of Love was
the winner of the Royal Society Te Aparangi Award for General
Non-Fiction at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards in May 2019, and
was a cover story for the NZ Listener in October 2018.
Joanne's The Search for Anne Perry was numbered in the top 10
non-fiction books on the New York Times BESTSELLER list. It was a
finalist in the prestigious New Zealand Book Awards in August 2013,
the subject of a 60 Minutes programme and a cover story for the NZ
Listener. It is an 'important' and 'beguiling' read that has
received excellent reviews. Both The Search for Anne Perry and
Hudson & Halls- The Food of Love have been optioned for feature
films.
Her critically acclaimed Ngaio Marsh- Her Life in Crime (2008) was
a Christmas pick of the Independent newspaper when it was released
in the UK in 2009. Her other biographies of expatriate painters
include Frances Hodgkins- A Private Viewing (Random House, 2005);
Rhona Haszard- An Experimental Expatriate NZ Artist (CUP, 2002);
and Edith Collier- Her Life and Work (CUP, 1999). She has curated
exhibitions and publishes in art history, theory and biography. In
2007, she was awarded a National Library Fellowship, and in 2017
the prestigious Logan Fellowship at the Carey Institute in Upstate
New York.
Joanne is a research associate at the University of Auckland and an
English teacher at Avondale College. She lives in Auckland, New
Zealand, with her partner and three cats.
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